Club Italia invites you to get a close glance at the world of the “Italian Goldsmith Art”, through a private closed-doors presentation and exhibition at Spadafora in The Hague. The event will take place on Sunday 5th November at 17:00 for a duration of about 2 hours.
Meeting point: G.B. Spadafora Italian Jewellery, Denneweg 182, The Hague.
Spadafora’s jewels represent a point of reference in designer goldsmithing, contributing decisively to the construction of the most authentic concept of “made in Italy”. A historic company, one of the Calabrian symbols in the world. A brand that is first of all synonymous with art and vision, but also with tradition and valorisation of the territory.
A welcome drink is included.
Price:
Club Italia members: free
Non-members: 5 €/person
money transfer to CLUB ITALIA
IBAN: NL02 ABNA 0516 2816 66
object: Italian goldsmith art
- To complete your registration, send an email to dhitalia@epo.org by Friday 27th October.
Registration for non-member is effective only after payment.
Maximum number of participants: 30
Please note, that due to the limited places persons who have registered are expected to participate. Also, due to the limited places the event is only for colleagues and their partner/family.
More about Spadafora family
Spadafora’s story is closely linked to the history of the Calabrian goldsmith tradition because the family has been practicing the goldsmithing profession since the end of the 1700s. Spadafora’s art even got as far as South America, where part of the family emigrated in the 1950s.
Giovanbattista Spadafora, grew up in the shadow of the goldsmith’s workshop of his grandfather, Francesco Spadafora, who had his laboratory and his small shop in the historic centre of San Giovanni in Fiore (Cosenza). It is not just a job, it is a true passion: Giovanbattista was an artistic genius, not simply the goldsmith who created little jewels. Crowns were Giovanbattista’s big passion and he was given the nickname “goldsmith of Madonnas”, because in his life he made more than 400 of them, embellishing religious statues throughout Calabria but not only.
Giovanbattista was deeply attached to his region and took inspiration, among other things, from the Sila (national park of Calabria) and from the Tablets taken from the Liber Figurarum of Gioacchino da Fiore (abbot prophet of Calabria) to create his works. He was much appreciated also by celebrities and since several years his family realize the “Starlight Awards” for the “Venice film festival”
“Spadafora jewels”, is a company whose history coincides with that of its family. In fact, there are four brothers who inherited the artisan business, Monica, Giuseppe, Giancarlo and Carolina Spadafora, and who are engaged in raising the name and history of Calabrian goldsmith craftsmanship, which Giovambattista Spadafora was the first to inextricably link to the world of art, culture and cinema. Monica says: «Goldsmithing in the past was much more popular than today, because there was a popular culture closely linked to jewellery. We explain this in a volume of 468 pieces collected during dad’s life – passionate about restoring and conserving ancient – and a museum will soon be born too. In this volume we tell the story of the jewel over the years, in 150 years of history from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, the jewel which is the history of the people, not the elite people.»